ManagementSpeak: They don’t pay us to be right.

Translation: Don’t ask if it’s a good idea. Our job is to get it done.

I didn’t pay contributor Dave Hayward to be right. He decided to contribute this gem for the fun and satisfaction of it.

“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion, or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle, or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better start running.” — Thomas Friedman

“Nice metaphor. Bad ethology.” — Bob Lewis